ALL RIGHT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. BE SEATED. MR. LANGE, YOU CAN STEP DOWN.

THE RECORD SHOULD REFLECT THE JURY HAS WITHDRAWN TO THE JURY ROOM. MR. DARDEN, LET ME GIVE YOU A PIECE OF ADVICE. TAKE ABOUT THREE DEEP BREATHS, AS I AM GOING TO DO, AND THEN CONTEMPLATE WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY NEXT. DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A RECESS NOW FOR A MOMENT?

I DON'T REQUIRE A RECESS, YOUR HONOR.

I WILL HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AT THIS POINT. I HAVE CITED YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY RESPONSE?

I WOULD LIKE COUNSEL, YOUR HONOR.

YOU CAN HAVE COUNSEL. YOU HAVE COUNSEL. DO YOU WANT TO CALL YOUR COUNSEL? DO YOU WANT TO HAVE SOMEBODY FROM YOUR APPELLATE DIVISION COME DOWN?

I WOULD LIKE TO BE HEARD ON MR. DARDEN'S BEHALF, YOUR HONOR.

DO YOU REPRESENT MR. DARDEN IN THIS MATTER?

I DON'T KNOW IF I'M LEGALLY ENTITLED TO, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO BE HEARD ON HIS BEHALF.

ALL RIGHT.

WHAT WE ARE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT HERE, YOUR HONOR, IS THAT THERE IS A METHOD OF CROSS-EXAMINATION THAT IS BEING CONDUCTED BY MR. COCHRAN.

THAT IS NOT WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN, MISS CLARK.

BUT THAT IS THE IMPETUS FOR THE EXCHANGE AT SIDE BAR, YOUR HONOR, AND WE ARE, ALL OF US, GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE JURY IS GETTING.

YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT TO THIS.

THAT IS THE IMPETUS.

MISS CLARK, MISS CLARK.

THAT IS WHAT LED TO --

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THIS.

-- THE EXCHANGE AT SIDE BAR, YOUR HONOR.

NO. MISS CLARK, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THAT. I'M INTERESTED IN THE REFUSAL TO AVOID -- EXCUSE ME. THE REFUSAL TO OBEY THE COURT'S ORDER NOT TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE, NOT TO SPEAK TO THE COURT AS I WAS HEARING FROM ONE COUNSEL, NOT TO INTERRUPT THE COURT AND THE COURT GAVE THREE ADMONITIONS AND MR. DARDEN CHOSE TO IGNORE THOSE.

MR. DARDEN WAS NOT -- DID NOT CHOOSE TO IGNORE THEM. I THINK MR. DARDEN WAS SIMPLY AT THAT TIME OVERCOME WITH WHAT HAS BEEN TRANSPIRING WITH MR. COCHRAN'S CROSS-EXAMINATION. IT WAS NOT A DESIRE TO FLAUNT THE COURT'S AUTHORITY, ALTHOUGH I POINT OUT TO THE COURT THAT THE COURT'S ORDER TO STOP AND DESIST HAS BEEN IGNORED BY THE DEFENSE TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN WITH NO CITATION. NO CITATION. MR. DARDEN IS SIMPLY RESPONDING TO THE EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURRING IN THIS COURTROOM TODAY AND HAD BEEN OCCURRING THROUGHOUT CROSS-EXAMINATION. I MYSELF HAVE BECOME OVERWHELMED BY THE FACT THAT THE JURY HAS BEEN GIVEN HEARSAY, HAS BEEN GIVEN, AND THE RECORD WILL STAND BY WHAT I SAID, SLOP, IN THE FORM OF COUNSEL TESTIFYING BEFORE EVERY WITNESS.

COUNSEL, DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU I DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR THAT? I AM INTERESTED IN A CONTEMPT PROCEEDING.

AND IF THE COURT WOULD LIKE TO SET THE MATTER FOR OSC, THEN WE WILL PROCEED TO OSC. I DON'T THINK IT IS REQUIRED. I THINK --

NO, IT IS NOT REQUIRED. I CAN DO IT SUMMARILY. DO YOU WANT TO PUSH IT TO THAT?

NO.

THEN HOW COME YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY -- WHEN I INVITE COUNSEL TO TAKE THREE DEEP BREATHS AND THINK VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO SAY TO THE COURT NEXT, THAT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET UP AND SAY, "GEE, I'M SORRY, I LOST MY HEAD THERE, I APOLOGIZE TO THE COURT, I APOLOGIZE TO COUNSEL." WHEN I GET THAT RESPONSE, THEN WE MOVE ON. WHEN YOU TELL THE COURT YOU WANT TO HAVE AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE, THAT IS A DIFFERENT RESPONSE. THAT SAYS YOU WANT TO FIGHT. DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT SOME MORE WITH THE COURT? YOU ARE WELCOME TO DO SO. I'M GOING TO TAKE A RECESS AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AND MR. DARDEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT THIS CAREFULLY WITH ABOUT TEN DEEP BREATHS PERHAPS. HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR?

TEN MINUTES.